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evidently has in view those words in which Christ says: "My body given-my<br />

blood shed for you." Who can believe that Justin imagined an<br />

impanate <strong>and</strong> invinate Jesus; <strong>and</strong> that he was so beclouded as to imagine<br />

that this bread-body could be the body which was given for men, this<br />

wine-blood, the blood which was shed for mankind for the remission of<br />

sins. <strong>The</strong> bread <strong>and</strong> the cup cannot be thought of as that body of Christ<br />

which was given <strong>and</strong> that blood which was shed for the remission of sins.<br />

Nothing, but the impossibility of any other view, would justify us in fixing<br />

so monstrous a theory upon the language of Justin. Second. Justin is very<br />

careful to express how far the parallel between the personal co-presence of<br />

the two natures of Christ <strong>and</strong> the sacramental co-presence of the two<br />

elements of the Supper goes <strong>and</strong> does not go. <strong>The</strong> "on tropon," which we<br />

have translated, "in what way," does not mean to state that the modes of<br />

the two things are identical, but simply to show that the first is a voucher<br />

for the second; that there is such a parallel; that the first authenticates <strong>and</strong>,<br />

to a certain degree, explains the second; but not at all that there is an<br />

identity of mode, still less that the second is a repetition of the first.<br />

In the Septuagint <strong>and</strong> New Testament, "on tropon" has the sense,<br />

"As, even as, what manner, corresponding to," Ezek. xlii. 7: "After the<br />

manner of," Ezek. xlv. 6. "Outoos" has the sense, "So, even so, likewise,<br />

thus." <strong>The</strong>re are passages in the Biblical Greek in which the two<br />

expressions are related precisely as in Justin. 2 Maccab. xv. 40, "As (on<br />

tropon) wine mingled with water is pleasant, even so (outoos) speech<br />

finely framed delighteth." Acts i. 11, "In like manner as (on tropon) ye<br />

have seen Him go into heaven, this same Jesus shall so (outoos) come." 2<br />

Tim. iii. 8, "Now as (on tropon) Jannes <strong>and</strong> Jambres withstood Moses, so<br />

(outoos) these also resist the truth." Not identity but similarity is expressed<br />

in every case. Justin clearly says, that the "word," in virtue of which the<br />

Eucharist becomes Christ's flesh <strong>and</strong> blood, is the word of the prayer, or<br />

prayer of the word, "euchees logou." It is not the Logos which effects the<br />

change of which he speaks, but the prayer of the word which is from Him,<br />

to wit, from Jesus Christ, whom he has just styled the "incarnate Logos."

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